About CrossFit
CrossFit History:
Almost a decade ago, Greg and Lauren Glassman, owners and founders of CrossFit, Inc., began their mission to ‘Forge Elite Fitness’ in a small, garage-like space in Santa Cruz, California. This small space witnessed a small neighborhood of local athletes, service members, policemen, firefighters, mothers, fathers, and friends grow into a community of momentous proportions. Today, the CrossFit Program has exploded into extraordinary magnitude in all walks and climbs, both nationally and internationally. To give more quantifiable measures, there are currently more than 750 CrossFit-affiliated gyms worldwide.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
(http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/what-crossfit.html)
